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I don't think it's just shoe contracts and endorsement deals by Tjmcfly

Having minimal skin in the game, but knowing others with much more, our (maybe) middle linebacker just got paid close to six figures for being a "brand ambassador" with a financial firm he's obligated to do nothing else for. The 120 tweets it garnered today was enough for them. To me that seems ripe for exploitation. He did also pledged 20% of it to charitable causes (LADS!!!!11!!) but the point remains.

I've gotta side with Andy on this one. I don't know what's going to come of this, and I'll certainly never side with the NCAA over the student athletes, but I think a lot more thought should have been put into how this has been rolled out.